Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-05-02
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There IS manlieStly Vaet hciu toi
profitable enterprise and develop
ment in Arizona, and although her in
habitants are anxiously waiting, and
inviting the whole world to go there
and help themselves to whatever
they choose, their invitation is not
vet sufficiently well needed. But her
era of prosperity is surely coming. 1t
is not probable that her vast water
resources, which she surely has. viii
remain undeveloped, non-utilized, for
ever; nor that her immense low-grade
ore bodies Of every variety will lie
dormant in the mountains by reason
of costly transportation or difficult
processes Of milling or reduction. 1t
is we'll known that ore is universal
there. A grave can rarely be dug in
any billy region without the appear
ancc OF ore, and the sands of many
old waterways and cafions show gold
dust few feet beneath the surface.
That Territory also contains many
beautiful and fertile valleys, which,
amid the larger area OF mountain and
sterile mesa lands, where miners
delve and cattle roam, must ultimate
ly become the points where the food
supply from agriculture will be want
ed for the population engaged in the
napy other pursuits. When this
takes place these choice valleys will
produce their wealth from the soil,
with a home market always at hand.
The three principal valleys that
are now being considered, and look
ed upon as the coming agricultural
centers, are the Salt River, where
beautiful Phoenix nestles among trees
whose branches are thronged with
song birds, and beneath which hripple
the ever fertilizing canals, Florence,
about sixty miles eastward on the
Gi'a river, with whole regions of
rich soil, possessing unlimited pro-
ductive force, lying unoccupied and
Solomnville, in the old Pueblo Viejo
Valley, on the Middle Gila, still fur
ther eastward, where even now the
productions are exported, leaving a
balance in favor of the producers.
The quantity Of water flowing
through the valleys mentioned. is
said to be sufficient, il properly util-
lied, TO irrigate every acre of land in
that entire Territory. But in view of
its capacity and possibly ultimate do
yelopment, it remains comparatively
as rude and crude as nature left it.
The vicinity Of Yuma and Gila
Bend may be included in what we
have said of the other places, and
even old dessicated Tucson has a
bright future, ii its people were but to
work in harmony and with energy in
the development Of its water re-
sources.
Arizona is not fortunately situated
to receive the we'll directed attention
of the. capitalist or the immigrant.
California mining operators are much
infatuated with their native hills, and
those OF Nevada; and they of the
East are headed off by Colorado and
New Mexico. Poor, rich Arizona
seems to be wedge between pros
perity on either side. That these
conditions may change, so as TO give
her the character, advantages and
development so well deserved, is the
hopeful wish OF the HERALD. Los
Angeles has a warm feeling for that
Territory. We have from the earliest
time been connected with itby trade,
and many OF its people were formerly
identified with our city. 1t seems to
hold the relation 70 us that colony
does to the people from whom II was
originally planted.